James Scott taught us what’s wrong with seeing like a state. Now, in his most …
beneath the apparently objective metric of citations lies a long series of "accounting conventions" smuggled into measurements that are deeply political and deeply conse- quential. My fun at the expense of the Social Science Citation Index may seem a cheap shot. The argument I'm making, however, applies to any quantitative standard rigidly applied.
— Two Cheers for Anarchism by James C. Scott (63%)